# intel/pcm

Intel® Performance Counter Monitor (Intel® PCM)

Repository: https://github.com/intel/pcm
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/pcm
Language: C++
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Topics: monitor-performance, processor, performance-monitoring, energy, performance-analysis, performance-metrics, performance-dashboard, performance-visualization, processor-architecture, cpu, xeon, intel, pcm, power, linux, windows, osx, freebsd, monitoring, performance-counters
Last push: 2026-08-11T13:42:45+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 80/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 97, release rhythm 46, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3593, "days_push": 22, "days_rel": 145, "gap_med": 197, "n_releases_24m": 4}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3318, forks 527 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:56.190881+00:00)

## What it is
Intel Performance Counter Monitor (PCM) is an API and a set of tools for monitoring performance and energy metrics of Intel Core, Xeon, Atom, and Xeon Phi processors. It works on Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, DragonFlyBSD, and ChromeOS.

## Use cases
- monitor cpu performance counters on intel processors
- measure energy and power consumption of a xeon server
- profile core utilization and memory bandwidth
- analyze performance metrics of intel cpus
- track per-core frequency and thermal metrics
- monitor cache misses and instructions per cycle

## When to choose
- you need low-level hardware performance counters on Intel CPUs
- you want CPU energy and power metrics on Linux, Windows, or FreeBSD
- you need a C++ API plus CLI tools for processor monitoring

## When to avoid
- you need performance monitoring on AMD or ARM processors
- you only need high-level application profiling rather than hardware counters
- you lack kernel driver or MSR access on your system

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: monitoring, benchmarking, developer-tools
- domain: performance, developer-tools, monitoring
- platform: windows, bsd, cpp
- tags: cpu-performance-counters, intel, energy-monitoring, hardware-metrics, profiling, linux, macos, docker

## Member repositories
- intel/pcm (main) score 80

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:56.190881+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:42:03.369490+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/intel/pcm (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:56.190881+00:00, sha 45ced3febf89)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.